11 Responses to Packard Roof Views

Watched ABC World News Sunday evening, April 18. They were doing a story on the ruins of Detroit. They featured the Michigan Depot and Packard Plant. On the Packard Plant, they had video (probably from youtube) about some people rolling a truck (on the third floor) out and crashing down below. Not good for the image of Detroit.

Then in another video short on the same ABC News, they had someone pushing a refrigerator out of a multi-story apartment bldg. and crashing down below. I wonder if it was the same people.

Yes – this is not only an AKA design, the last three photos are in the area where Building #10 is, the original steel re enforced concrete structure that all modern construction worldwide is based on. Kinda important – yes.

I think it is emblematic of Detroit’s history of destroying its history. Not sure you can place this as the epicenter of Detroit’s decline tho.

Dfunk. Are these Kahn buildings? I was a kid when Packard gave up the ghost. I find it hard to believe that a site as valuable as this must have been has been allowed to get to such a state. Is this where Detroit’s problems began?